Putin Accuses West of Trying to Re-Write History

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused Western countries of re-writing world history in an attempt to "weaken" Russia and undermine its sovereignty.

During a meeting tasked with memorialising Russia's World War II, Putin said Western countries' goals were to "disunite, deprive us of guidelines, and ultimately to weaken Russia and to influence its sovereignty, in fact, to undermine sovereignty."

He added that the "distortion" of history and "planting of myths" were responsible for the situation in Ukraine.

"Such a scenario, as we see, has already been tested in some countries, including Ukraine, and in a number of other states," he said.

He added that Russia's national identity "remains the continuity of generations, loyalty to traditions, high spiritual moral guidelines."

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[H.B]

If he keeps messing around we can erase his history too.

[joshuaDstarks]

Putin is doing a fairly good job of cementing his page in the history books, and it isn’t pretty.

[gene]

Man he just keeps throwing all those untrained Russians to the front. He don't care about his people. And he honestly thinks nukes is a reasonable option. Gotta be hard to sleep at night

[mollybeckman]

Snip at vet and I’m just being a maid. But it’s even for the Godparents for me to still be here in support of the cool powers. But steal.

[putinscat]

Well, we will be redrawing some maps soon.

[danjohnston]

Well, there is this thing about " History being written by the WINNERS " 😏

[samuelthompson]

I wish I could blame someone for my shortcomings and failure in life while still acting like the be nice Putin not taking responsibility.

[strange]

I agree with Vlad ( whatever he said )

[dannyamando]

My idol remember russia is a sacred place the paradise on earth

[nesseihtgnay]

Times changed putin stop living in the past. And your talking about sovereignty, who did you invade? Huh

[dannyamando]

I love you Vladimir Putin from Philipp8nes..

[dannyamando]

You are one race why you should fight you must love each other, God is angry createcpeace on earth russia you had more power, God loves your people remember Enoch who was translated 8n heaven his from your land now maybe he's so sad of what happening in the xwolrd now make peace God is just watching the earth